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When an #Abidjan taxi driver asks me, the foreigner, for a ridiculous fare, I often take a dramatic look inside car, then reply in French, “Where is the buffet? A coffee [included]?” Today, a driver 👏🏽 back, pulled this from under a floor mat & said, “You get a yam!” 😆 #Africa

#TODAY: OIC for @AfDB_Group Agriculture, Human & Social Development Vice Presidency,@mfregene77, to set scene for a “Building Sustainable Infrastructure” #AfDBAM2026 event co-hosted with @BMZ_Bund. Infrastructure investments must create skills and decent jobs for Africa’s youth👷🏽

Join the @AfDB_Group's leadership discussions on mobilizing finance for @AWFbroadcast Strategy 2026–2030 and the Africa Water Vision 2063 during the Annual Meeting 2026 in Brazzaville #AfDBAM2026.

@TIME OK. So, now that it is launched - how to sign up for the Akuna Daily news platform to see the content? What's the addy? Found this on YouTube: youtube.com/shorts/LbFNQV6… Elsewhere? 👀

This Africa Day, Idris Elba has launched Akuna Daily — a new news platform dedicated to the culture, the people, and the business shaping Africa right now. He shared his vision for the platform last week at a TIME100 Impact Dinner in New York City. The actor, along with his wife Sabrina, was named a 2026 TIME100 Philanthropy honoree for the work of their nonprofit, the Elba Hope Foundation. Read more about their philanthropic ventures here: time.com/collection/tim…

#HappeningNow: At @AfDB_Group's 2026 Annual Meetings in Brazzaville - #AfricaDay observations, embracing an @_AfricanUnion water theme. Because water security is economic security. Are you in, and watching? Click to stream👀💻👇🏽 #AfDBAM2026

#CNN: International tourists to the United States of America dropped in 2025. Visitor numbers decreased 5.5% compared to the year before. It was the biggest decline since 2002 excluding the Covid-19 pandemic period. edition.cnn.com/2026/05/25/tra…

Cool things happening at the @AfDB_Group 2026 Annual Meetings in Brazzaville. What are your three words for Africa on #AfricaDay? Help fill the canvas! 👀🎨👇🏾🌍 #AfDBAM2026

@AfDB_Group Agency. Standard-bearer. Delivery.

#AfricaDay: This morning, this canvas is blank. Over the next few hours, Congolese artist Mayck Derinck will bring it to life with the words of leaders, thinkers, dreamers, and doers here in #Brazzaville at #AfDBAM2026, as well as from all of you. We're asking one simple question: What are your three #WordsForAfrica? Drop them in the comments below. We'll select a few for Derinck to paint onto the canvas.

@FearedBuck What happened to the camera work?

A non-enhanced athlete, Hunter Armstrong, won 1st place in the Men’s 50m Backstroke at the Enhanced Games while competing against athletes using testosterone, steroids, and other PEDs.

Naomi Osaka on why she chose to host a party for the black tennis players: “You know I'm seeing a little bit of- ‘Why can't you love everyone for all skin tones?’ and ‘what if someone had an all white party?! First of all I do love everyone for who they are no matter their race + ethnicity, (I'm literally half Japanese lol). I can only speak from my experiences in my own life though, growing up as a tennis player I didn't see many people that looked like ME and I feel like it's important to celebrate them. Secondly I feel like it's important to note that there have been all white dinners/parties. I don't know how else to tell you this, I literally seen them all the time and never had an issue with it at all. To the people who ask this question I want to ask you this question too, ‘What is it about POC getting together that unsettles you so much?’ I want to end this by saying I grew up watching my dad get discriminated against, having the cops called on him multiple times at the tennis court. There are multiple things I will apologize for in my life but celebrating being black and appreciating who we are will never be something I would consider saying sorry for. Thanks. Actually I lied, I am sorry. I'm sorry for the people who cannot comprehend in their brains that this is not about exclusion, this is a celebration about how far we have come 🖤” (via Naomi on Threads)

@transbulgaria 😂Dude in the denim vest first seemed reluctant....

Meanwhile on Cyprus TV 👀📺

An Oakland Olympian's 'Steroid Olympics' gamble is costing him his fans. The event will allow athletes to compete in swimming, weightlifting and track-and-field events while they take performance-enhancing drugs banned in every major sporting competition sfgate.com/sports/article…

Seems @NBC10Boston is really seeking clicks by putting this #WhiteHouse video meme factory by one of #NBCNews' own out there.

"What is that?"

I was in the middle of taping on my iPhone for a social video from the White House North Lawn when we heard the shots. It sounded like dozens of gunshots. We were told to sprint to the press briefing room where we are holding now.

@AP It is giving Bowen Yang....👀

A monumental, rocky illusion is swallowing the oldest bridge in Paris after JR — the artist known as the "French Banksy" — began inflating a giant "cave" over the Pont Neuf. apnews.com/article/france…

@afpfr It is giving Bowen Yang...👀

🎨🇫🇷 Parisiens et touristes ont découvert jeudi le Pont Neuf totalement transformé dans la nuit par l'artiste JR, en phase finale d'installation d'une "caverne" éphémère qui sera ouverte au public à partir du 6 juin. Qu'en pensent-ils ? ⤵️

For Mozambican farmers like Jonas Lazaro, access to fertilisers used to be a major struggle. WATCH below to learn how a US$2 million trade credit guarantee from the Africa Fertiliser Financing Mechanism is changing that.

Yes, still watching and into the evolution of #Eurovision performances from DARA - Bangaranga | Bulgaria 🇧🇬. Even from semi-final to finals, Dara's on camera chemistry quotient skyrockets.🚀 x.com/Klausfigu/stat…

Why is the story about the absolutely brilliant creative minds who revamped the staging and choreography for DARA - Bangaranga | Bulgaria 🇧🇬 | #Eurovision Grand Final not yet appearing on my feed? 👀🔎 x.com/escxksn/status…

Just a few standout staging and production techniques so far in #Eurovision Song Contest 2026 Grand Final, live from Vienna. Otherwise, not as exciting as past years. HOLD UP - hello, Bulgaria's Dara (Darina Yotova) and #Bangaranga! 🇧🇬

@jnoley Sure they are. Dancers are integral to the act. The competing duality of a charismatic Dara talking/telling a story to camera, and her engaging in tightly choreographed story with the dancers is a key reason why this act worked. And work, these dancers did! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reprise!